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Lot 488
Sale 5580 - Gentlemen Collectors: The Lucas Family of Baltimore
May 23, 2018
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$100
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Neapolitan giltmetal-mounted porcelain box together with four figurines late 19th century
The rectangular box with a polychrome rendering of the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, with blue underglaze marks for the Capodimonte factory, Naples, and containing a handwritten note: "Bertha: little box from Lizzie Thompson's card party 1896;" together with a figure of a courtier, a highland guardsman, a bust of Mars, and a figure of Vulcan, all with crowned N marks, possibly for Capodimonte or for Potschappel, Dresden. (5).
H: 2,W: 3 1/4, D: 2 3/8 in. (box)